Site details

Aghios Antonios Potos

PK	C7456
TITLE	Aghios Antonios Potos
WGS84	40.601219° N, 24.609368° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	40.601219, 24.609368
LON/LAT	24.609368, 40.601219

DMS

40° 36' 4.3884" N

24° 36' 33.7248" E

W3W	leaps, premise, goalpost
UTM	35 T, 297728.21, 4497237.22
EGSA87	551408, 4494383

Elevation m	25
Elevation feet	82
Region	Macedonia
Subregion	Thasos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Nerantzis and Papadopoulos [2016], 90    'The single metal find from the excavation is the pointy edge of a copper dagger.', 'These include fragments of two crucibles, a clay mould for the casting of chisels, a small tuyère used for the blowing of air during heating and possibly alloying in crucibles, and pieces of slag.'
2.    Buildings.   Nerantzis and Papadopoulos [2016], 89    ' ... a complex of six Early Bronze Age buildings, five rectangular and one apsidal with stone foundations and mud-brick superstructures ... '
3.    Settlement.   Nerantzis and Papadopoulos [2016], 89    'Aghios Antonios is a coastal settlement ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Nerantzis and Papadopoulos [2016]: 89, 'More recent findings of Bronze Age copper reduction that came to light at Aghios Antonios near Potos ... '

2. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Nerantzis and Papadopoulos [2016]: 89, ' ... six Early Bronze Age buildings, ... ', ' ... while the Early Bronze Age houses were erected sometime during the first half of the 3rd millennium (2900-2400 BC).'

NOTE

1. An important Early Bronze Age copper-smelting site and one involved in the new smelting of tin and copper to make bronze. See the discussion and bibliography in Nerantzis and Papadopoulos [2016].

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Nerantzis and Papadopoulos [2016]: Nerantzis, Nerantzis and Stratis Papadopoulos. ‘Chapter 12. Copper production during the Early Bronze Age at Aghios Antonios, Potos on Thasos’, In Photos-Jones et al. [2016] (BAR 2780), pp. 89-94, 'Copper production during the Early Bronze Age at Aghios Antonios, Potos on Thasos', pg. 89. Online here.

2. Photos-Jones et al. [2016]: Photos-Jones, E. in collaboration with Y. Bassiakos, E. Filippaki, A. Hein, I. Karatasios, V. Kilikoglou and E. Kouloumpi. Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. British Archaeological Reports Limited, no. 2780., '',